Every once in a while, people email me about this site; even more rarely, people will send me stuff they think is interesting. Much of it isn’t, alas. Some of it, however… might be.

Case in point: An anonymous individual recently sent me what he or she professes is the manual for an “FBI cellphone eavesdropper”. I don’t think that’s necessarily true; it appears to be the instructions for something called a “438M1 Cellular Phone Interceptor”, about which Google knows… nothing. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s also a decade or two old, and thus pretty much obsolete - but I know next to nothing about cellphone technology, so feel free to prove me wrong.
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